Currently Checking the new version 2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img I am having issues with a boot install using HDMI output however the Blind Login Method using putty appears to work fine there's a couple of small changes to raspi-config I'll get these documented as soon as I have solved the HDMI issue.

A lot of this is applicable to Raspbian instalations.

Here are a few links to pages spcifically written to support noob members of our community.

Note noob (new-bee)is not used in a dreogetory sense it only signifies a user on the start of the road to geekdom.

All too many geeks and uber-geeks forget that they were once noobs themselves.

The guides are linked to the 2012-16-18 beta image in the title only for ease of fixing them to that specific image of wheezy.

There is every posibility that they will work just as well with later versions.

However on the pretence of not wishing to appear stupid the page is nominaly linked to that image.

Noob hardware projects

Planned

Issues with new image

I'm posting this as a heads up I just downloaded the torrent of 201-07-15-wheezy-raspbian off of a torrent checksum ok and it appears to install to SD.

On a clean first time boot it appears not to detect the live (yes it is switched on) HDMI it's on and playing via a Blind Login using putty for an ssh connection so the image works and it may well be good for composite but it appears the HDMI is not playing for the first time out of the card.

Once I have run raspi-config off of a putty blind login it fires no problem both to command line and to startx if thats chosen from the raspi-config.

The earlier version was working and I do know my way round this as can be seen from the noob writeups contained in the links on this page.

Obviously I will have to do some more testing but I thought this had to be worth a heads up on the off chance it's not something I'm doing.

Ok done an additional test the composite fires up just as it did for the earlier version going directly to the raspi-config menu but it appears to be only playing on the composite output not hdmi.

The previous version went to composite if you did not have HDMI plugged in it works once you have chosen the Desktop option but if you can't see a command line screen you can't view the raspi-config script to activate it.